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I will post pics tomorrow. (By the way, The Beach was a workbench where I perfected Comet.)

A new park has opened on the beach. The single coaster is a Roaring 20's out-and-back (the same one in Idylwild. I like it.)

Bad news: the Idylwild has been cancelled due to lack of interest (mine). I will start a real-time park now. See you there! (1987 start-time)

What I mean is that Son of Beast Trainer can change ride Excitement, Intensity, and Nausea. I use this so I can build my insane rides. See?

Actually, the British spelling is "Favourite". Anyway, I chose Montu. I was at BGT on a day where the trims were essentially off. That little loop is intense...

8cars is deficient in one thing: changing ride stats. This is key. I use both 8cars and Son of Beast.

The best drop is on Riddler's Revenge. Front seat. Center-right. It feels like you will fly out of the train.

Better: A drop into a GIGANTIC Zero G Roll, then a Cobra Roll, Loop, Dive Loop, MCBR, Inclined Loop, Flatspin, airtime hill, helix, some other stuff, Flatspin, and a Zero G Roll at the end.

Add a coaster. Theme it to ...um... hmm... the flight from Egypt.

I will add the sprawling suspended coaster, then post it for D/L.

A LIM spaghetti bowl was mushed into the space between the FD3 coaster and Comet. A floorless was added, that intertwines with Chaos Theory and Nitro. The front of the park now looks like a mess of track.

This contest is now on! Who's in?

Or you could just use buildings.

Pretty good! In five years, add a B+M.

I generally ignore themeing and concentrate on coasters. My parks look ugly pathwise, but the peeps love it.

Those of you who have been following my Idylwild construction will have noticed that the terrain is excellent. I am starting a contest. You have until May 31 (real time) to build a park and theme it. Rules: 1) You may not go and add custom scenery. This is about doing more with less. 2) You may use up to two trainers. 3) You MUST use the terrain creatively. 4) The park must contain at least 7 coasters. 5) The coasters do not have to be rideable if they look cool. Winners will be in these categories: Best Overall Best Themeing Best Coaster (rideable) Best Coaster (unrideable) Best Use of Terrain Please post if you wish to enter. Idylwild Heights contest.SV6 You need RCT2 to run this. It is a "mystery terrain" contest, as you won't know the terrain until you open it.

More Pics! An overview so far. Nitro entwining with Chaos Theory. Comet, an out-and-back Roaring 20's woodie.

So why do TOGOs (outside wheels) hurt so much?

I asked the kids at my lunch table for stupid GP sayings. Here you are: "The Batman ride (at SFNE) is 200' tall!" "Superman (again at SFNE) is the tallest coaster on the planet!" "I went to Six Flags and rode Medusa AND Wildcat!" "What's the best coaster ever?" "Where's Superman?" (standing in front of Superman) "The net (on Hulk) is to catch people who fall out." At SFNE: "Where's X?" (My answer: "About 3000 miles from here.") "Scream goes upside down!" (Scream is an S+S Space Shot, FYI.) "How many Immelmanns are on this?" (pointing to Batman: TDK) "Where's the coaster that launches you at 100 mph?" "I heard that Boomerang fell off the track!" (Could happen.) "Look! Someone fell off a coaster and landed here!" The above quote was the result of a joke involving a gallon of paint. My friend and I poured a splat of paint on the ground near the SLC, then hung around and waited for a GP to notice.

I disagree with "above the track". SLC's should count. Furthermore, positive vert G's can go into the red on Schwarzkopfs (Schwarzkopf loops pull 6 G's). There should be bad transitions in order to be "rough".

My dad gets motion sick on ferris wheels. This is pretty funny.

I used to be one of those people... My other pet peeve is when people exaggerate stats (at SFMM, I learned that Viper was 300' tall and the first loop was 210', the second 150' and the third 100'. And did you know that Arrow corkscrews are actually called "flatspins"?) I also hate line cutters. Although at SFNE, one person cut in line to get in the back of the SLC. I enjoyed their looks of pain as they got off.

^The Ferry would require an AI that could guide the ferry. Scenery limits... yeah. Let's not go into those. Boosters are key. We need a double loop element (Zonga/Texas Tornado/Thriller).

After hearing that Superman: Ride Of Steel at SFNE was "Boring because it only went upside down once," I decided that the GP were getting out of hand. First of all, Superman does NOT go "upside down once." It does not have any inversions. The closest thing it has is the overbank. And it is not "boring." Honestly. Post your GP complaints here!

Wait. You are saying that the idiots on FD3 ACTUALLY got something realistic? I thought that no coaster in existence had hydraulic restraints.